You grab towels, trash bags, tents, bags of cement mix — anything. You start moving mattresses into your little brother’s room. You don’t know exactly what to expect, but you’ve seen pictures of other people’s homes after other catastrophic floods. The windows aren’t shattered, yet it looks like someone broke in and ransacked your house. This story is based on interviews with Justin Forbes, whose house flooded in Baton Rouge; Amanda Prater, who lost everything when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans; Blanca Gonzalez, whose home flooded twice before in Houston; Eric Larsen, a research scientist of human ecology whose home has flooded twice in California; Jordan Acker, whose house flooded in Detroit; and Marlin Leal, whose home flooded during Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

Source: Huffington Post August 31, 2017 13:52 UTC